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FTX built the exchange. Then broke the rules.
A $32 billion valuation. A trading platform built for professionals. And a hidden exception that let one firm reach into everyone else’s money.
Bitso makes crypto disappear into payments
Bitso started with a place to buy bitcoin. Its more revealing business is helping money cross borders and land in a bank account, with the crypto machinery tucked between the two.
VALR: The exchange that wants to be everyone’s plumbing
A Johannesburg crypto exchange won customers at the front door. Its more revealing ambition lies behind the walls: the trading, payments and account infrastructure other financial businesses can build upon.
The Exchange That Had to Change Its Name to Keep Moving
Okcoin survived the first great crypto crackdown by leaving its home market. A decade later, its final move was quieter: teaching customers to leave the Okcoin name behind.
WhiteBIT Wants a Place in Your Wallet - and on Your Football Shirt
The Ukrainian-founded crypto exchange is pairing trading infrastructure with debit-card spending and football fandom. Its wager: people will use digital assets more often when they have somewhere familiar to spend them.
Gate sells access. Trust is the harder trade.
Thousands of tokens brought traders through Gate’s doors. A bigger financial supermarket now rests on a harder promise: making all that access worth trusting.
Hata
Hata is a Malaysian dual-licensed digital asset exchange that lets people buy, sell, store and stake cryptocurrencies using local fiat. Founded in 2023 and launched in May of that year, it holds licences from both the Securities Commission Malaysia and the Labuan Financial Services Authority - a rare dual-regulated footprint that keeps customer assets custodied inside the country. Led by ex-Luno APAC general manager David Low, Hata grew to more than 209,000 registered users by the end of 2025 and closed an US$8 million Series A led by Bybit in April 2026.
Reku
Reku is an Indonesian investment platform that lets everyday users buy, sell and trade cryptocurrency alongside US stocks and ETFs from a single app. Founded in 2017 as Rekeningku.com and rebranded to Reku in 2022, the company positions itself as a low-fee, education-first exchange licensed by Indonesian regulators. It offers spot crypto, crypto futures, staking, OTC services and curated Reku Packs, and turned profitable in 2024 while serving hundreds of thousands of customers.